[NBLUG/talk] Debian

[Jeremy Turner]

On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 17:50, Steve wrote:
> Wow, thats a small ISO image.  Is woody the current release of Debian?

That's the other unique thing about debian.  The current release is
3.0r1 (version 3.0, revision 1), name woody after the Toy Story
character.  It was released on Dec 16, 2002.

Additionally, there are the testing (code name sarge) and unstable (code
name sid, who was the crazy kid or some say it stands for "still in
development") branches, which let you use software that may not be ready
for prime time on a production server.  I find unstable fine for my
desktop and have only had 1 or 2 problems with it in the last 2-3 years.

Yep, the image is very small.  You can see the packages included in it
by clicking on the *.packages file in the same directory.  It basically
only includes enough packages to get you with a working system (a bash
prompt) and you can dselect or apt-get whatever you need (apache, samba,
x, gnome, kde, etc).

Additionally, http://www.apt-get.org is a great site for finding apt-get
sources for unofficial packages in deb format, like software on the
cutting edge.

Jeremy

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